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Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

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Does anyone here get actually get any help from NAS ?

My experience is you ask for help and they send you a bucketload of PDF'S of other organisations. Am I wrong to have expected more ?

The chief executive gets paid 140 grand a year, is it right that someone can live in luxury on that kind of salary from charitable donations ? Not even counting the other 20 people on stupid salaries comes to over 2 million quid ...no doubt plus expenses.

I thought charities existed to help others but obviously they are more interested in helping themselves.

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  • Thank you for that long reply zone tripper. I learned a lot about you but I'm not sure you realise the bind you put yourself in. You argue that Britain and Denmark are not comparable in size and then you tell us a lot about yourself and extrapolate from there to encapsulate everyone else. You and everyone else are not the same size. What is right for you, in all of that detail, is not right for everyone else. We all have to fit on a planet whose resources are very unequally divided and may be nearing a point where the consequences of that have very significant effects.

    Your comment about the SWP was pretty cheap. The fact that you no longer have those leanings is no significant marker of maturity. I could name any number of people, presumably more qualified than both of us, who are well-respected economists and political thinkers, and who do see real problems in such an unequal society. Not everyone is as rational about their mediocre wage as you seem to be. The £140,000 compensation is not so material for me. It's more a sign of decadence and no reason at all for not engaging with the NAS. Perhaps I should ask to be paid in cash because I do not like how much bankers get paid or live in a cave because of the salaries of solicitors. I guess having an opinion about high pay is problematic is it?

     

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  • Thank you for that long reply zone tripper. I learned a lot about you but I'm not sure you realise the bind you put yourself in. You argue that Britain and Denmark are not comparable in size and then you tell us a lot about yourself and extrapolate from there to encapsulate everyone else. You and everyone else are not the same size. What is right for you, in all of that detail, is not right for everyone else. We all have to fit on a planet whose resources are very unequally divided and may be nearing a point where the consequences of that have very significant effects.

    Your comment about the SWP was pretty cheap. The fact that you no longer have those leanings is no significant marker of maturity. I could name any number of people, presumably more qualified than both of us, who are well-respected economists and political thinkers, and who do see real problems in such an unequal society. Not everyone is as rational about their mediocre wage as you seem to be. The £140,000 compensation is not so material for me. It's more a sign of decadence and no reason at all for not engaging with the NAS. Perhaps I should ask to be paid in cash because I do not like how much bankers get paid or live in a cave because of the salaries of solicitors. I guess having an opinion about high pay is problematic is it?

     

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